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MORPARIA’S PAGE E-mail: [email protected] Contents APRIL 2017 VOL.20/9 ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ THEME: Morparia’s page 2 Safety Don’t ‘care’ for us! 5 Nivedita Louis How safe is India? 6 Managing Editor Vandita Morarka Mrs. Sucharita R. Hegde How safe is my city? 8 Longnam Kharpuri, Shabarni Basu, Ishma Raina and Anvi Mehta Editor The charm of Chennai 11 Anuradha Dhareshwar Liz Thottan No place for the elderly? 13 Shoma A. Chatterji Assistant Editor Safety ahoy! 15 E.Vijayalakshmi Rajan Karn Ragade Whither, girl power? 17 Santanu Mishra Design 11 Fatal journeys 19 H. V. Shiv Shankar Babji Choudhary Know India Better Marketing Pulicat: A lagoon, monuments and the Dutch connection 23 Mahesh Kanojia Nivedita Louis Face to Face 36 OIOP Clubs Co-ordinator Bobby Sarma Baruah: Shoma A. Chatterji Vaibhav Palkar Features The day never ends 39 Anvi Mehta Subscription In-Charge Not my cup of tea 41 Nagesh Bangera Usha Hariprasad Anger! 42 A. Radhakrishnan 23 Fun with our past 44 Advisory Board Divya Prasad Sucharita Hegde The shape-shifter 46 Justice S. Radhakrishnan Shoma A. Chatterji Venkat R. Chary The pioneer 47 Prof. Avinash Kolhe Shut it down! 49 Printed & Published by Bharat Dogra Mrs. Sucharita R. Hegde for Times they are a’ changing 50 Ram Puniyani One India One People Foundation, Book Review 51 Mahalaxmi Chambers, 4th floor, Dr. P.M. Kamath 22, Bhulabhai Desai Road, Column 52 Mumbai - 400 026 Tel: 022-2353 4400 Bobby Sarma Baruah Nature watch : Bittu Sahgal 36 Infocus : : C.V. Aravind Fax: 022-2351 7544 Young India 54 e-mail: [email protected] Great Indians 56 [email protected] Printed at: Graphtone (India) Pvt. Ltd. A1 /319, Shah & Nahar Industrial Estate. S. J. Marg, Lower Parel (W) Mumbai – 400 013 visit us at: Admiral A.K. Chatterji, Surjit Singh Barnala Taarak Mehta PVSM, AVSM www.oneindiaonepeople.com www.facebook.com/oneindiaonepeoplefoundation LETTER TO THE EDITOR “Innovative and whole outlook of the railway stations will be improved. I hope excellent content” they take my letter into consideration and provide us with The February 2017 cleaner and greener toilets. issue of OIOP was not – Jubel D’Cruz, Mumbai only very innovative, but also had excellent “What are we actually developing?” content. The articles In this 21st century, we talk about development, were of high quality innovation, technology, advancement and what not. But are and made interesting we actually developing? With so many crimes relating to reading. Suresh Nair female molestation, rape cases, sexual abuse, can we really brilliantly analysed say we are progressing towards social development? Because the variety of humour of a certain class of lunatic men, women have to live with as played out in fear wherever they go. Eve-teasing is so dominant that every Indian movies. His teenage girl in every corner of the country has witnessed observation that regional films are able to have rip-roaring female abuse of some kind or the other. In a country which comedies with literate humour due to its narrow spectrum of is projected to be a global superpower and economically viewership, was bang on target. It is true that in Hindi films equipped, how can we live with such backwardness in the the writer is forced to contrive humour in the dialogues so society? Why is it that a women’s position in our society is as to encompass the nationwide hindi-speaking audience. still considered so low that any person can insult their dignity Consequently, only banana peel / slapstick comedies evoke and get away with it? laughter in the latter and hence become successful. Eve-teasing has posed a serious threat to the women of Hemant Morparia, the super-cartoonist, bemoaned the our society. There is hardly any girl or woman who has not lack of enthusiasm among the next-gen to take up cartooning. been the target of eve-teasers. Bus-stops, auto-rickshaw While his article accurately elaborated the reasons for this stands, etc., are the favourite haunts of the eve-teasers who declining trend, the artist proved that he was no less a writer. seem to have no other business than passing lewd remarks We would like to read more of your writings, sir! on women who happen to pass by. Eve-teasing is a crime Hats off to the editorial team to have thought of such and to put an end to it, women themselves must take the stimulating content even as the print media is getting stiff initiative. But women generally ignore the eve-teasers as competition from the electronic media. This is perhaps the they fear the evil consequences that might befall them in only way to bring people back to ‘old-fashioned’ reading! future. – Dr. Rajan T.D. MD, DVD, DNB, PGDMLS It is this baseless fear of the women-folk which gives the Pharma Consultant, Specialist in Skin & Sexually eve-teasers the courage to pass objectionable comments as Transmitted Diseases, Mumbai they think that women are too meek and timid to confront “Stinking urinals” them. It’s high time women shed their fear and confront the Urinals at most of the railway stations in Mumbai stink eve-teasers boldly. This is the only way to teach a lesson like anything. They are not washed for days together. At to such culprits so that they will not dare to tease another Churchgate and CST railway stations, it becomes very woman in the future, and think a thousand times before difficult to even eat or drink anything from the stalls or even passing lewd remarks again. walk towards the platform in order to catch a train, as the – Jubel D’Cruz, Mumbai stink is very strong. One can even get the stink of urine outside the railway stations. The railway authorities should make arrangements to wash these urinals once in every 15 Letters should be addressed to: minutes, as a lot of commuters use them. Even the toilet The Editor One India One People Foundation which people use are in a bad shape. The same applies to Mahalaxmi Chambers, 4th Floor, the urinals and toilets at Matunga and Parel railway stations. 22, Bhulabhai Desai Road, Mumbai - 400 026 If the railways could provide us with 100 per cent cleaner Tel: 022 - 2353 4400 Fax: 022-2351 7544 and greener toilets in the trains as well as on platforms, the e-mail: [email protected] 4 ONE INDIA ONE PEOPLE April 2017 SATIRE Don’t ‘care’ for us! Will Superman take a break and the considerate man stand up, please? demands Nivedita Louis, who is fed up with the male euphemism of ‘care’! HAT irritates a woman more? A bad-hair day? proposal and a rejection, all we are left with are potholes The “stay safe” message from the men of her life? the size of moon’s craters. Only time will teach our men that WI would like to affirm the former, but sadly, for ‘rejection’ is cool and it can end well with a little booze and most women, it is the latter. The only thing that comes free “Why this kolaveri di” soup song. in a woman’s life is advice from the ‘know-alls’, in case we If there is one word that can make a woman go ballistic, forego the ‘buy one, get one free’ offers. it is “care”. All in the name of care, our men keep suffocating It starts with “Don’t play with Anu’s son”, and goes on the lives of women. We are brain-washed from time with “Not this dress!”, “Don’t wear this lipstick”, “Not these immemorial that a woman is ‘weak’ and is to be cared for. stilettos”, “Reduce the compact, will you?”, She needs ‘pampering’. She needs constant “Why do you have to laugh so loud?”, “No We don’t need a ‘care’. No sirs! All she needs is a fag at the outing with your guy friends”, “Cheee… Superman to save end of a tough day, or an outing with her does your friend smoke? Don’t you ever do us every day. Let besties! that!”, “What? A drink with friends? Are you him please wear his We don’t need fire-breathing dragons at insane?” and goes on and on till eternity. We ensemble right (not the back of our necks, checking the watch preach sermons on ‘don’ts and dos’ to our the undies over the and saying, “You’re late!”, “This place isn’t girls. Have we ever bothered to tell our sons pants, gentleman!) safe”. As our equals, it is your duty too to to treat women right? and go save the keep this place safe for us. After all, you are How insensitive can our men get? While world. We need the the bosses! Ah! Talking of the bosses! “Who the mother keeps rolling rotis out of her is the boss?” – “You!”, “Who pays you?”– ‘considerate man’ kitchen like the roti-maker is on fire, the father “You!”, “Who can molest you?”– “NO ONE!” who perfectly knows lounges on the sofa and complains how Kohli A woman gets paid for her work as salary. missed the catch. Our sons grow up seeing what a woman No one, take the point, no one gentlemen, their fathers acting the couch- potatoes they possesses and pays her in kind, unless SHE asks for it! doesn’t cross the are, and think watching TV brings rotis to We don’t need a Superman to save us their plates once they’re married. boundary under the every day. Let him please wear his ensemble Safety of a woman is directly proportional pretext of ‘caring’ right (not the undies over the pants, to the length of her skirt.

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